Looking back at my Serverless Advocacy
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A Developer Advocate experiencing DevRel ecospace at Freshworks. Previous being part of the start-up Mobil80 Solutions based in Bengaluru, India enjoyed and learnt a lot with the multiple caps that I got to wear transitioning from a full-stack developer to Cloud Architect for Serverless!
An AWS Serverless Hero who loves to interact with community which has helped me learn and share my knowledge. I write about AWS Serverless and also talk about new features and announcements from AWS.
Speaker at various conferences globally, AWS Community, AWS Summit, AWS DevDay sharing about Cloud, AWS, Serverless and Freshworks Developer Platform
And then my curious mind couldn't stop thinking there could be a better way! And I got introduced to the blogs and I got into an habit of reading more and more blog posts about Serverless and how to architect Serverless applications. And the applications which I was into were mostly managed with Console or CLI.
When I was overly excited with what all awesomeness Serverless holds, I started internal developer advocacy (explaining and bragging about Serverless) to my peers, colleagues and tech savy friends. Which also made me do my research right so that I get to convey the correct version of my understanding! And I started thinking of basic ideas and also the projects which I had implementated with the traditional architecture and as my excitement driven force got me implement those on Serverless with similar or equivalent architecture (P. S. mostly monolithic architecture) which resulted in some cost and made me think that Serverless is expensive for a production level applications!? Which is when one of the StackOverflow posts mentioned that you need to forget the monolithic way and think event-driven! which made a whole lot of sense for me, as I understood by them, Serverless architecture and traditional architecture are multitudes away. And I started attending Twitch streams, events, meet-ups where I got to understand Serverless more.
And it was in 2020 when the pandemic had encapsulated the world and there were long lockdowns, which gave me crazy amount of time to try out (in other words become a mad scientist working on experiments) with Serverless architecture and get a hang of it.
This was around the time when I got introduced to a Senior Developer Advocate ASEAN during a AWS CDK workshop hosted online, who guided me with CDK development. By this time, I had got a good understanding and started blogging about Serverless on Dev.To. By seeing my content about Serverless, I was invited to AWS Community ASEAN and I'm continuously contributing to the community.
And then I started extensively contributing to the AWS community with blog posts, tweets, GitHub contributions to sample repositories of AWS services.
Apart from these, I'm actively contributing to the 
I must say I wouldn't have got to this place if it wasn't for a ton of people who constantly supported me directly or indirectly with some encouragement and some tweets which kept me motivated. Thanks everyone! 🙏🙏 I hope to learn and grow more and we will get a moment to collaborate and work together. 